skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way this is going to change would be state/megastate level action.

Make selling/using these attacks against government or other users a terrorist level event. Go after the heads of NSO and their like.

I'd say at that point the companies would be absorbed into the national intelligence infrastructure of the host county and cease to be independent entities who can be bought for the highest bidder. And I know NSO is basically like that now, but

I'd love to see some criminal sanctions for things that their software has been used for stick.
The whole point of capitalism is for a minority with the means to profit off of the majority without the means. It doesn't care about the quality of products as long sa they make money. Since owning all the means of production means owning the power, capitalism will never self-regulate: it doesn't have the interest of the majority in mind

"Capitalism properly managed" isn't capitalism anymore, so if that's what we want (and I agree with you) then let's use proper terminology. Workers-owned coops, democratically-chosen regulations, communities governed by and building for themselves,federating between each other, the stuff
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Definitely. War itself brings new markets and new economic activity in many ways. For the most simple example, think of the conquest of the Americas and the opening up of resources and trade or prostitutes setting up shop in a new area to service soldiers or new towns.

But the main historic example I was thinking of, is cited in Graeber's Debt: the First 5,000 years. In the late 1800s, France invaded Madagascar, declaring it a French colony. New, heavy taxes were imposed because France demanded their colonies be self-supporting. France then enforced the building of new rail, roads, plantations, etc. It's an imperfect book but a good read.

Another example might be the destruction of Europe in WW2, which allowed the American Empire to rebuild and form NATO, which the US then enforced (and still enforces) Europe to buy US-built arms and weapons as a percentage of European GDP. It would be misleading to call this a direct "tax," but there are parallels here.

Finally, part of the reason the US went to war in the early 2000s is likely to generate economic activity due in part to the precarious relationship it has with the dollar being the reserve global currency. Bush even said on live TV in 2001 that the best thing we could all do was go to the mall and buy junk, foreign-made stuff which is akin to countries paying tribute to the American Empire. Again, not a direct tax, but there is certainly a parallel here.
This is fascinating, I didn't think that was possible.

What would be the optimal sensor geometry for such a lens? The distortion would be crazy, wouldn't it? Nowhere near a rectilinear projection.
So I take it your question is: Is Anti-EU sentiment justified or unjustified?

I think that it's both wholly justified and almost entirely grassroots/bottom-up. A thriving tech/industrial ecosystem -- even a functional military-industrial ecosystem -- is basically incompatible with Europe's regulatory and taxation structures.

Much has been written recently about how Norway and Italy tax unrealized gains to such an extent that running a SV-style startup is basically illegal. See, e.g.: https://x.com/aledeniz/status/1842872753499607407

Labor regulations result in very high costs of failure, so that what would be profitable in California would be unprofitable in Germany: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/12/wh...

As Boss Zvi put it, "Welcome to being a CEO in the EU with over 40m in revenue, now please report these 649 environmental and social indicators." https://x.com/jo3hill/status/1866450203743576478

And I could go on all day. Depending on the business you're in, it can be smart to incorporate in the Caiman Islands and work out of Europe on a satellite office basis, but you definitely want to limit your exposure to EU rules.

I'd only note that the EU is not a monolith, local regulations and tax laws can differ wildly, and some countries -- like Ireland and certain Baltic companies chasing investment -- are much more business friendly than others. (With Italy, Germany, and Norway in the "you'd have to be a masochist to start a business here" tier.)
Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security
GDPR already exists. It just needs to be enforced in this context.
This.

For a several years now, all new cars sold in EU must have an S.O.S. button that will call emergency services. As a result each and every car has some sort of SIM card built-in and a cellular plan that works across entire Europe.

This SIM card must be free, but its a gateway to things like upselling (pay us $XX and get a wifi in your car) and also a way for the manufacturer to have always-on connection with the car.

Some manufacturers (KIA/Hyundai, Ford, Toyota) offer complimentary free app that you can use to check car location, open/close it, turn on AC (hybrid/ev) etc. with option for more paid features.

Edit: As for the speed limit, its also Europe regulation from this year - car must know the speed limit and beep if you exceed it. Different manufacturers do it differently, but since this has been optional feature for so many years in every car, all manufacturers had this ready - and its mostly based on built-in navigation + road sign recognition. It could use cellular but since this has been feature for so long I don't think this is how it works in majority cases.
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I always wondered how it's possible that Germany regularly announces some "5/6/7G breakthrough" or some ridiculous investments in mobile infrastructure of new frequencies, yet the mobile internet for individuals is so miserable and expensive. Their industries get all the broadband.
I agree, but I also think "how people fail at X" is a biased frame, when X is a risky, high value, naivety prone goal.

"Building a platform" is such an X. A high risk/reward goal where lots of failure is expected.

Programming languages, operating systems, hypertext, www. The earliest versions may have been small and made for a specific need... but the generalization attempts came soon and excitable zombocon words came out of mouth.

So sure... targeting your new programming language to a specific use case is a strong starting strategy. But.. it's a programming language. A platform.

The whole information superhighway was a big zombocon in the 90s. That's why the parody resonated in the first place.

I'm not entirely convinced that general platformish ideas cannot succeed. They're just hard and tend to attract the naive because if the massive potential.
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Technically speaking you do not need a lens to capture an image (see pinhole cameras) BUT for most applications a lens is a necessity. It is the first part of the image capture pipeline and has a huge influence over the final image.
Thanks, I was more curious whether they offer a better TOPS. Also there’s this concerning skepticism about OpenRouter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/uGxhqi1YYh
It's not possible to join the Euro zone unless the inflation in the country is at the bottom side of the Euro zone for consecutive years.

The inflation absolutely matters.
Don't be too worried about what they collect per se they all do and you mostly won't know. Let's worry about how they manage and use it. When it comes to Apple specifically - homomorphic encryption is "common" and well done - it how do they use this encrypted data is the key...
Meta’s request for interoperability is regarding their hardware, not their flagship apps, if you take it at face value.

They want their glasses and headsets to integrate as tightly as an Apple Watch or Vision Pro to show messages and other notifications, connect to WiFi, and share files with an iPhone, but Apple uses private APIs for their own devices. Meta says that is anticompetitive and the APIs should be public.

Apple lays out their rebuttal in detail here and it’s clear Meta asked for everything in the hopes that Apple will settle for some of these things: https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/DMA-Interopera...
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The government does end up paying for this via Medicare and Medicaid but doesn’t have good levers to solve it directly.

The more important dynamic you’re pointing to is that private insurers don’t care because our insurance is tied to our employers and therefore is expected (by insurers) to churn every 4 years or so.

It literally makes zero sense for a private insurer to invest in an American’s healthcare results more than 3 or so years down the road.

Surprise surprise, we have best-in-class care for emergencies and complex acute cases, and absolutely atrocious management of early disease and lifestyle problems (which is when it’s most cost-effective to solve health problems).
Android applications can use their own private data directories just fine, you don't need any permission for that. Termux, for instance, can run entire Linux distros without ever being granted storage permissions.

They can also request the user for a specific folder to get read/write permissions for (rather than the entire shared storage space).

Just requesting full access to the entire shared storage is a lot easier to implement, but it's also not great for privacy and security. Google is trying to crack down on these permissions in the Play Store for this reason.

Several apps have been caught extracting location history data from pictures stored in the camera directories already, so it's not a theoretical threat. Unfortunately, app developers have been reluctant to implement the (much better) specific file picker introduced in Android 4.4, but now they're being forced to if the want Google Play access in the future.

The scoped storage API has some downsides, though, such as reduced performance. Not really a problem if all you want to do is upload a picture or save a document, but when you're running executables from there you may run into a wall. This can be circumvented by copying the files to the app's private data directory, but people may want to use the selected folder to copy output back to Android, and a copy action obviously doubles the space required at least temporarily.

That being said, I believe applications shouldn't refuse to work entirely without full access to every file on the shared storage space. They can ask the user what they want to do if the storage permission is denied rather than refuse to work.

Extra unfortunate is that the new file picker Google introduced a few months ago for media selection is absolutely terrible in my opinion (no directory support, just a flat list of images), but some other phone brands offer file pickers of their own.
So you don't want a browser?
But Israel does have a leader who believes in expanding and it is. Israeli settlements are growing and annexing land. Land is being annexed in Gaza via the General’s plan. More land has been captured in Syria. And it isn’t yet clear if Israel will fully withdraw from Lebanon.

It doesn’t matter what size Israel is. It has a super equipped army unlike any other country in the region and its population is growing while many countries around it are failed/fragile states (eg syria and Lebanon and sort of Egypt.). And if Jordan is forced to take a few million Palestinians from the West Bank it could become a failed/fragile state too.
Trump is talking out of his ass.

The US doesn't need to annex Greenland, just set up a few bases there which can be more easily done. But even that has less benefits now than it had during the Cold War. If one wants to intercept hypersonic ICBMs they need satellites equipped with powerful lasers to zap'em. Kintetic interceptors in Greenland or space won't do.
I blame that populous who requires a centralized authority to do things for them.
Also Apple's own apps request permissions the same way third party apps do
Missing the point though. Amazon isn't Amazon because of its tech (speed, reliability, etc) doesn't matter as much as: inventory (tons of things you can only find there), delivery speed (you can reliably get 99% of the things in a week or less and some of the items get delivered in HOURS) and customer service (you are right by default, you will refunded and get free delivery if you encounter issues). That's the ultimate killer. If a competitor managed to do this, a little marketing to get installed in the customer base's phones will definitely eat Amazon's lunch. Temu has shown big strides but its ethical problems will prevent them from becoming a true threat. A local Temu-like competitor would be a formidable adversary
Wow, someone has been reading too much Nationalistic propaganda.

There’s no need to talk about hypotheticals here, let’s look at a country that actually left the EU. The UK so far is worse off financially, has worse trade deals and literally no better “sovereignty” nor privacy since leaving the EU.

The real totalitarians are the national governments who claim they should operate without oversight and then blame everything on foreigners.
> independent study
> at least one author has relations with Ruyan group (today part of Imperial Tobacco), a then-major vape manufacturer

But even this "independent study" seems to acknowledge the difference between recreational vaping, and using vape as a tool to stop smoking.

Do you believe everything that's on TV, or are you just a run of the mill tobacco company shill?

The only reason I want to live until 2050 is to see the lawsuits that will mirror the smoking lawsuits from the early 90s. (But this time they will be lead by Instagram and TikTok influencers - not that it will take any of the value)
> The resulting curl looks, from a network perspective, identical to a real browser.

How close is it? If I ran wireshark, would the bytes be exactly the same in the exact same packets?
It's the sound and Bobcat Goldthwait would have made if he'd voiced the Aflac duck.
Me too. I worked with some people who thought the database was an implementation detail. This created quite a lot of friction. I hope it was a learning experience for all of us.
One thing that happened under Carter was the deregulation of natural gas (the 1978 Natural Gas Policy Act). Before that, wellhead prices were federally regulated.

It's difficult to understand now, but natural gas was viewed as something in short supply back then that had to be price controlled. Of course the causation was in the other direction: price controls led to shortage, and once those were removed enormous new sources of gas began to be uncovered, eventually leading to the fracking revolution. Today in the US natural gas is a colossus, having beaten down coal and nuclear.
There're only 312 words in that article. Clearly not worth even one picture.
Because Tesla isn't owned and controlled by a foreign government and military rival. (OK, Elon is a little too cosy with Putin for my liking, but not to that extent).

I think it's reasonable to be sceptical about whether a state that brings us disposable vapes, TikTok and throwaway fast fashion has our best interests at heart.
You're perfectly describing swedish drivers. They seem unable to comprehend that the red light 50 meters ahead will soon be their problem.
isn't this a key question? anybody here knowledgeable and care to reply?
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The US seems like a success model if anything. Wonder how much better would be the lives of Californians or Louisianans if they were their own country.
I got The Twilight Zone: Evergreen episode flashback while reading this.
> for entrenching you further into proprietary technology

But isn’t this already the case right now? In my opinion this argument is kind of backwards because the lack of (or access to) APIs is precisely what’s preventing us from having alternatives!

Siri is proprietary, closed source, big corp, etc.

Want an open source, community based, interoperable, fully local, etc. assistant/AI? It cannot exist in today's world simply because it requires what Meta asks for.

I dislike Meta very much but I refuse to believe that creating or opening up such APIs would foster „entrenching you further into proprietary technology“.
I think they might have been only saying that Skoda is owned by VW? The fact that the referred to "both companies" after that made me assume that, although I know next to nothing about cars (and hadn't even heard of Skoda before, but maybe it's not as well known to Americans like me).
Physics could benefit borrowing a little from AlexNet and Sutton's Bitter Lesson
I think we saw how well this approach worked with the cookie popups post GDPR. It doesn't really work. At this point I feel most people have some idea of how their data is used and sold and if they continue to use Meta apps, its because they think the tradeoff is worth it. There are either no alternatives or strong network effects that make Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp etc a worthwhile choice in many cases and we know it.
They certainly don’t. We’re talking about apps like Phone, Messages, Photos, Files and system stuff like app tracking (Screen Time etc.).
A browser (without telemetry) is surely a good definition of something that doesn't initiate network calls before user intent
I don't know if it needs to be smoothly varying instead of having just two zones with a step between them.

Either way, I'd expect it to need significant amount of processing to get anything useful.
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Only if Apple's uses of that data have to go through the same flow, with equally scary text.
> But isn’t this already the case right now? In my opinion this argument is kind of backwards because the lack of (or access to) APIs is precisely what’s preventing us from having alternatives!

Yes, it is. The entrenchment is an ongoing process designed to give us short-term benefits that appear harmless. But they slowly add up and produce an ecosystem that is actively harmful and not much better than before (on average).

By the way, I don't argue for or against Meta having access to APIs. I am against Meta entirely -- and the only logical answer to them is to dismantle them.
> Well, unless public healthcare, then it 'hurts' all tax payers

No, it also hurts private insurance customers( in the US ). Healthy weight people, and those who exercise are subsidizing the premiums of people who refuse to put down the fork and move occasionally, because it's illegal to discriminate premiums based on obvious risk factors like bodyfat %.

My family pays $2700/mo in premiums for a shit-tier PPO in order to support the gluttony of everyone around us. We very rarely even use the insurance.
They won't, and they're not expected nor advised to.
I would support that, too.
Not true, poorer, lower educated and rural population predominantly voted for Brexit.

> University graduates and those with higher qualifications predominantly voted to remain. Blue-collar workers, particularly in traditional industrial areas and manual labor jobs, overwhelmingly supported Brexit.
Reasons included economic discontent, perceived competition from EU migrants, and a desire for national sovereignty.

As usual, it's only people that have very low capacity to understand a complex world, those that are easier to sell dreams about "sovereignity" that end up screwing their own lives.

Somehow the same happens in the US where conservatives can win even while openly promoting policies against workers (but it's always easy to promise more manufacturing jobs and america first).
Good point that Walmart got its edge against incumbents by incorporating advanced technology into their operations.

But for whatever reason, they took their foot off the pedal, and allowed Amazon to use the next step (networking technology and internet) to gain an edge over the now incumbent Walmart.

> 2. Is more tech savvy than Walmart and Target.

The market (via market cap) clearly thinks Amazon has lots more potential than its competitors, and I assume it is because investors think Amazon will be more successful using technology to advance.
Interesting this. It reminds me of when my dad used to work at NATS /CAA (uk air traffic body). I remember him getting complaints in the early 90s that people’s car locking systems failed to work on the car park next to the radar tower at Gatwick. Turned out the radar (or the huge electrical field created by the motors in the radar) created havoc. If I remember right it ended up being a question on the back page of the new scientist..
You can be a small country by landmass and still be expansionist. Israel's map has only grown in size from 1949 until today.
I do not think 2 is ridiculous. Not at all! But I agree we should fear that from all vehicles, no matter what make.
Quite the opposite — it blows up the diffs:

You rename a method, now it's a few chars shorter/longer, and some 1-liner call sites can become completely rewritten to the vertical style or vice versa.

You delete a single line, now the expression can fit under a threshold, and the whole block is spaghettified (especially terrible when deleting a struct field).

You wrap code in an if{}, which could have been a clean whitespace-only change for the entire body, but the indentation affects rustfmt's char counts, and it will now force different formatting decisions all over the place.

If you're changing an infallible method to a fallible one, you could have added error handling/fallback on separate lines, keeping changes to the happy path minimal – but not with rustfmt.

For minimal diffs you'd want something with a slack like gofmt, but rustfmt completely overlooked what makes gofmt so great and widely acceptable, and is a misanthropic ruthless canonicalizer instead, which ruins lots of use-cases, including minimal diffs.

Rustfmt's heuristics aren't simple. They're based on char counting of AST nodes, with multiple different limits for different node types, and crossing any threshold can trigger an avalanche of reformatting. There are more complex rules for closures and comments.

These heuristics are a source of formatting inconsistencies, e.g. each match arm is evaluated independently. Even when all match arms contain the same code, they can be formatted wildly differently due to patterns/name lengths pushing different thresholds. Indentation and AST context can make the same expression look differently each time.
Such problems largely don't exist in gofmt, so it's not a problem of code formatters, it's a problem of rustfmt specifically.
I volunteer in kitchens and give direct. I befriend my locals and help them pay for their medicine if they ask (unbelievably, the homeless at times still have to cover their prescription costs.)

I don’t prescribe the alienation and hostility I see my fellow jackass American exhibit. You see them as “them” or “those”. You’re (karma critic) the “them” or “those”, these are a collective of individuals bound only by your dissociative contempt.
"They force other countries to have maximally free trade with the world bank/IMF"

The US has the influence to force other countries to act in the US's best interest as well. It's pragmatic.
What you describe is the artifact of an ecosystem where the consumer is a second class citizen. These exploits don't work on a desktop or notebook precisely due to that ecosystem is obtuse and pretty much the opposite of an extensible platform.
Refuse to sign any agreements about data collection (even for rental cars!), read the small print, if you are a EU citizen, send them GDPR Data Subject and then Data Deletion requests according to Article 17!
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